discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria. Analyzing data for over …

This paper develops a framework for analyzing unemployment in terms of …distribution of the inflow Into unemployment are the primary determinant of …drive the recession. In contrast to normal unemployment, cyclical unemployment …

states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … functions show that increased unemployment among married men has a sizeable short-run effect on both participation and …

employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access …Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our …

Demographic differences in patterns of employment variation over the business cycle are examined in this paper. Three … primary conclusions emerge. First, both participation and unemployment must be considered in any analysis of cyclical changes … in the labor market. Second, young people bear a disproportionate share of cyclical employment variation. Third, failure …

present a theoretical overview of the effects of health insurance on mobility and wage/employment determination. I critically …